Sun Mountain : a Comstock memoir /
Wheeler, Richard S.
New York, N.Y. : Forge,
2002.
An adventurer's memoir of his time in a gold-mining town in 1861 Nevada. The hero is Henry Stoddard, an educated man who begins as a miner and ends up as a reporter. He describes the mechanics of mining, disasters, financial speculation and new inventions, among them dynamite.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
An adventurer's memoir of his time in a gold-mining town in 1861 Nevada. The hero is Henry Stoddard, an educated man who begins as a miner and ends up as a reporter. He describes the mechanics of mining, disasters, financial speculation and new inventions, among them dynamite.
Mineral industries
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